Hana Yang

We have little announcement to share—the close of our series A! We’ll continue to expand our team across the nation, join us in the mission to make #VentureCapital #innovation investing more accessible! Check out @joinallocate careers businessinsider.com/allocate-raise…

Congrats to @Samirkaji, @hanayang, and the whole @joinallocate team on their acquisition of The Coterie 👏 Allocate uses tech and AI to enable better and more efficient private market investing. With this acquisition, Allocate will continue to move toward industry leadership and keep building better tools for investors that drive accessibility, transparency, and liquidity.

🎉 Today is a 𝐁𝐈𝐆 day as @joinallocate turns 3! 🎉 Below is a picture taken just one week after we closed our seed round. When we started Allocate, it was based on a decade long observation of the broken nature of private markets for investors. Our goal was to build a private market engine that drove the transparency, ease, liquidity, and access historically seen only in the public markets. It’s still early days, and like all startups, we've learned a lot from our customers, partners, investors, and each other along the way. Solving difficult problems is hard, and building a startup is an all-consuming experience—you wake up and go to sleep thinking about it EVERY DAY. Days blend into each other, highs and lows are the daily price of admission, and things usually take longer than you’d like. But these are all things you start to embrace, loving the thrill of building something that could positively impact many people. After 22 years working in the corporate world at organizations that, despite being excellent, I couldn’t imagine not working at a startup ever again. We’re excited to announce new products soon, and to date, we've been fortunate to grow with the support of: • 46 full-time employees • Over $33MM in funding, including @M13Company @SignalFire @BasisSet @fikavc INTERA Investments @michaelsidgmore @michaelbatnick @UrbanInnoFund @tuskventures @anthemis @bedrock @uluventures @monochrome_vc @SupernodeVC @Liquid2V @unshackled and others As we move into our 4th year, we know the real hard work is just beginning and there will be lots of challenges ahead. We sincerely appreciate everyone who has supported us, especially those who were there at the beginning like in the picture below.

A Data driven thread on the state of VC today, which we characterize as a "Tale of Two Cities" So much data seemingly conflicts of whether things are "back" or whether things are dire (Hint: It's both, but with qualifiers). It's a long thread, but packed with data 🧵

@girdley and this is why, as a 2x immigrant I’ve decided to settle here. America is great, thank you.

Give me a follow @girdley for more like this. ALSO: I think Twitter needs to be positive and thoughtful again. If you agree, bookmark/like/retweet the first tweet below:

12) Oceans Germany couldn't invade Britain across 15 miles of the English Channel in World War II. The Pacific/Atlantic Oceans are massive >2,000 mile barriers against the USA ever worrying about an invasion. You know Red Dawn where the US is invaded? Super dumb (but sexy).

We’re joined by @aileenlee of @CowboyVC who wrote a now famous article in 2013 where she coined the term Unicorn. She recently looked back with another article and spoke w/@Samirkaji. Listen to the entire discussion at open.spotify.com/show/1Z1jDhQG5…

The best people I've worked with don't limit themselves to their job description. They do whatever it takes to help the customer and the business and don't think that any work is below them. A team full of these people is unstoppable.

VC Investing Platform @joinallocate Raises $10 Million riaintel.com/article/2c7yix…

@joinallocate Allocate raises $10 million to open top VC doors to wealth advisers axios.com/2023/09/21/all…

While private markets have grown exponentially ($13T today), the infrastructure for enabling it across investor types (and particularly VC) is still MS-DOS level. Over the last two years of building @joinallocate I've been shocked to see how antiquated the software is for GP/LP

fave takeaways from this pod 1) running VC fund fundraising like a sales process 2) LP base construction 3) handling objections around solo GPs 4) #VC fund math 5) portfolio co construction 6) #emergingmanager kinship 7) the continuous learning journey

VC is not a monolith, yet we see it defined as such (from pre-seed to crossover). This leads to incomplete analysis by LPs on the types of funds to back. Growth, large brands, and seed should be viewed as different asset cats w/unique risk/return/time to liq characteristics

@jkhamehl @Samirkaji @joinallocate #aintnobodygottimeforthat kids 😂

@Samirkaji @joinallocate @hanayang the pic of you on the 📱 and @hanayang 🤣💪💕

We (@joinallocate) just hosted our inaugural Beyond Summit catered to fam offices. The focus was on VC & innovation, and we were joined by 130+ attendees. With so much negativity in the markets, was great to see so much positive energy about the future of innovation. @hanayang

Its been just under two years for us at @joinallocate and we have a new website! We are thrilled to help make venture more transparent and accesible. Thanks for all the support and getting the word out! allocate.co

@M13Company @Samirkaji @blackstone @joinallocate @GoldmanSachs and of course let's not forget, what is the case for investing in venture? it is investing in the future! #innovation

Honored to gather some of the brightest minds in investing on stage together: Joe Dowling (Global Head of @blackstone Alternative Asset Management), @Samirkaji (CEO of @joinallocate), and Sara Naison-Tarajano (@GoldmanSachs Partner, Global Head of Private Wealth Management Capital Markets, Global Head of Apex Family Office Coverage)

Bravo to Ulupreneurs @hanayang and @Samirkaji founders of Allocate. We highlight Hana during #WomensHistoryMonth as a founder on a mission to diversify the investment ecosystem. #DiversityandInclusion bit.ly/3Thsgyi

During this time of uncertainty we need to remember that founders are our future! We salute Ulupreneur @hanayang, co-founder at Allocate on her efforts to diversify the investment ecosystem. Watch her video! #WomensHistoryMonth bit.ly/3Thsgyi

thank you for your ongoing support & partnership ⁦@uluventures⁩ team 🙏 ⁦@miriamulu1⁩ ⁦@MariaSalamanca⁩ let’s go together, to go far! linkedin.com/posts/activity…

I just spoke with @Samirkaji. See the video here: youtube.com/watch?v=7t9fp-… Samir Kaji's SVB tweets are regarded by most experts and insiders as the most informed and balanced of the past 4 days, providing clarity and calm in a time of chaos. Thank you, Samir.